Patents by Inventor ZIAD AZAR

ZIAD AZAR has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11362550
    Abstract: Provided is a stator segment for the stator or the rotor of an electrical machine including a segment body circumferentially extending about a longitudinal axis of the stator segment between two circumferential ends. The segment body includes: a plurality of teeth protruding according to a radial direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, each tooth circumferentially extending between two respective side faces, the teeth being circumferentially distributed between two end teeth of the teeth, the teeth including at least one intermediate tooth circumferentially included between the end teeth, a plurality of slots, the plurality of slots including a plurality of intermediate slots circumferentially included between the two end slots, wherein side faces of the two end teeth are inclined with or parallel to each other and the side faces of the at least one intermediate tooth are respectively parallel to each other or inclined with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Alexander Duke
  • Patent number: 11329535
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a stator or a rotor of an electrical machine, the steps of: modelling a plurality of model segments circumferentially joined together in such a way that two circumferentially adjacent model segments contacts each other at respective circumferential interfaces, the plurality of model segments including a plurality of model teeth interposed between a plurality of slots, manufacturing the segmented body in such a way that at least the two end slots are circumferentially shifted away from the circumferential interfaces of the respective model segment for creating respective gap portions of the circumferential gap, the sum of the circumferentially shifts of the at least two end slots being equal to the sum of the circumferential extensions of the gap portions, circumferentially joining the plurality of segments together in such a way that two gap portions of two adjacent segments forms the respective circumferential gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Alexander Duke
  • Publication number: 20210359558
    Abstract: Provided is a stator for an electrical machine including a plurality of segments, wherein in order to reduce torque harmonics and power harmonics due to the interposed circumferential gap between two circumferentially adjacent stator segments, at least one of the two end teeth of each stator segment includes a circumferential protrusion at the respective tooth radial end, the circumferential protrusion protruding from the respective side face towards the respective circumferential end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Ziad AZAR, Richard CLARK, Alexander DUKE, Arwyn THOMAS
  • Patent number: 11146139
    Abstract: An electric generator longitudinally extends along a longitudinal axis between a drive end and an opposite non-drive end. The electric generator includes a stator having: a stator body including a stator yoke and a plurality of teeth protruding according to a radial direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis from the stator yoke to respective tooth radial ends, each tooth extending longitudinally between the drive end and the non-drive end, a stator support for radially supporting the stator body, the stator support further providing an axial support to the stator body at the non-drive end, an end plate for axially supporting the stator body at one of the drive end or the non-drive end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventor: Ziad Azar
  • Patent number: 11004586
    Abstract: Provided is a permanent magnet for a permanent magnet machine, a permanent magnet machine, and a method of manufacturing a permanent magnet for a permanent magnet machine. The permanent magnet includes a base body having a first side and a second side which is an opposite side with respect to the first side, wherein at least one first slit is formed in the base body such that the at least one first slit extends from the first side in the direction of the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Hans-Joergen Thougaard
  • Publication number: 20210083533
    Abstract: Provided is an electric generator including a stator including: a stator yoke a plurality of teeth, a plurality of slots extending radially from the stator yoke to respective radial slot ends, the plurality of slots being circumferentially interposed between the teeth of the stator, each slot including a bottom portion adjacent to the stator yoke and a top portion adjacent to the respective radial slot end. The stator further includes a plurality of coils housed in the plurality of slots, each slot housing at least one coil in the bottom portion and at least another coil in the top portion, each coil housed in the bottom portion of a first slot of the plurality of slots being connected to another respective coil housed in the top portion of a second slot of the plurality of slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Erik Groendahl, Subhra Samanta, Arwyn Thomas
  • Patent number: 10944345
    Abstract: Provided is a method and arrangement for controlling a multi winding set permanent magnet electrical machine in case of a fault in a first group of the winding sets leaving a second group of the winding sets functional, the method comprising: determining a value of a torque generated by all winding sets; and controlling values of currents of the second group of winding sets based on the value of a torque, in order to reduce a damaging torque and/or a torque oscillation occurring and/or to break the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Nuno Miguel Amaral Freire, Arwyn Thomas
  • Patent number: 10886811
    Abstract: Provided is a stator assembly including: i) a first stator segment, ii) a second stator segment, wherein the first stator segment and the second stator segment being arranged along a circumferential direction of the stator assembly, and wherein the first stator segment and the second stator segment are located adjacent to each other and are separated by a gap. The stator assembly further including: iii) at least one first coil set of a first multi-phase coil system, and iv) at least one second coil set of a second multi-phase coil system, wherein each coil set includes at least one coil for each phase of the respective multi-phase coil system. Each stator segment includes a first busbar arrangement having first busbar elements, and a second busbar arrangement having second busbar elements, each busbar element being assigned to one phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Erik Groendahl, Subhra Samanta, Arwyn Thomas
  • Publication number: 20200280247
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a stator or a rotor of an electrical machine, the steps of: modelling a plurality of model segments circumferentially joined together in such a way that two circumferentially adjacent model segments contacts each other at respective circumferential interfaces, the plurality of model segments including a plurality of model teeth interposed between a plurality of slots, manufacturing the segmented body in such a way that at least the two end slots are circumferentially shifted away from the circumferential interfaces of the respective model segment for creating respective gap portions of the circumferential gap, the sum of the circumferentially shifts of the at least two end slots being equal to the sum of the circumferential extensions of the gap portions, circumferentially joining the plurality of segments together in such a way that two gap portions of two adjacent segments forms the respective circumferential gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Alexander Duke
  • Publication number: 20200136441
    Abstract: Provided is a stator segment for the stator or the rotor of an electrical machine including a segment body circumferentially extending about a longitudinal axis of the stator segment between two circumferential ends. The segment body includes: a plurality of teeth protruding according to a radial direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, each tooth circumferentially extending between two respective side faces, the teeth being circumferentially distributed between two end teeth of the teeth, the teeth including at least one intermediate tooth circumferentially included between the end teeth, a plurality of slots, the plurality of slots including a plurality of intermediate slots circumferentially included between the two end slots, wherein side faces of the two end teeth are inclined with or parallel to each other and the side faces of the at least one intermediate tooth are respectively parallel to each other or inclined with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Alexander Duke
  • Publication number: 20190393751
    Abstract: Provided is a stator assembly including: i) a first stator segment, ii) a second stator segment, wherein the first stator segment and the second stator segment being arranged along a circumferential direction of the stator assembly, and wherein the first stator segment and the second stator segment are located adjacent to each other and are separated by a gap. The stator assembly further including: iii) at least one first coil set of a first multi-phase coil system, and iv) at least one second coil set of a second multi-phase coil system, wherein each coil set includes at least one coil for each phase of the respective multi-phase coil system. Each stator segment includes a first busbar arrangement having first busbar elements, and a second busbar arrangement having second busbar elements, each busbar element being assigned to one phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Erik Groendahl, Subhra Samanta, Arwyn Thomas
  • Publication number: 20190260254
    Abstract: A stator assembly, a wind turbine and a method for manufacturing a stator assembly for an electrical machine with a concentrated winding stator design is provided. The method includes (a) providing a stator coil having a first coil axis and a first spatial design with, a first length along a first direction and a first width along a second direction; (b) exerting on the stator coil a tension force along the first direction and/or a compressive force along the second direction such that the first spatial design transforms into a second spatial design with a second length and a second width, wherein the second length is larger than the first length and the second width is smaller than the first width; and (c) placing the stator coil having the second spatial design around a single stator tooth of a stator yoke of the stator assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: ZIAD AZAR, SUBHRA SAMANTA
  • Publication number: 20190238077
    Abstract: Provided is a method and arrangement for controlling a multi winding set permanent magnet electrical machine in case of a fault in a first group of the winding sets leaving a second group of the winding sets functional, the method comprising: determining a value of a torque generated by all winding sets; and controlling values of currents of the second group of winding sets based on the value of a torque, in order to reduce a damaging torque and/or a torque oscillation occurring and/or to break the machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Nuno Miguel Amaral Freire, Arwyn Thomas
  • Publication number: 20190214873
    Abstract: An electric generator longitudinally extends along a longitudinal axis between a drive end and an opposite non-drive end. The electric generator includes a stator having: a stator body including a stator yoke and a plurality of teeth protruding according to a radial direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis from the stator yoke to respective tooth radial ends, each tooth extending longitudinally between the drive end and the non-drive end, a stator support for radially supporting the stator body, the stator support further providing an axial support to the stator body at the non-drive end, an end plate for axially supporting the stator body at one of the drive end or the non-drive end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventor: ZIAD AZAR
  • Publication number: 20190156979
    Abstract: A permanent magnet for a permanent magnet machine, a permanent magnet machine, a method for manufacturing a permanent magnet for a permanent magnet machine, and a method for manufacturing a permanent magnet machine is provided. The permanent magnet includes a base body, and at least one first fixing protrusion for fixing the base body to a rotor of the permanent magnet machine, wherein the first fixing protrusion extends from a first side of the base body, and wherein the base body and the at least one first fixing protrusion are formed integrally as one-piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Hans-Joergen Thougaard, Adriana Cristina Urda, Camilla Victoria Nicholson, Hui Sun
  • Publication number: 20190088392
    Abstract: Provided is a permanent magnet for a permanent magnet machine, a permanent magnet machine, and a method of manufacturing a permanent magnet for a permanent magnet machine. The permanent magnet includes a base body having a first side and a second side which is an opposite side with respect to the first side, wherein at least one first slit is formed in the base body such that the at least one first slit extends from the first side in the direction of the second side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: ZIAD AZAR, HANS-JOERGEN THOUGAARD